Original poem:
Title calligraphy and painting
Qingyuanmei
The village is sunny in the evening, and peach blossoms reflect fresh water.
Where is the shepherd boy going? A seagull sleeps on the back of a cow.
About the author:
Yuan Mei (17 16- 1797) was a poet and essayist in Qing dynasty. Zi Zi Cai was named Jian Zhai, and in his later years he was called Cangshan layman, Suiyuan master and Suiyuan old man. Han nationality, Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) people. Qianlong was a scholar for four years and served as a magistrate in Lishui, Jiangning and other counties. He has political achievements and came back at the age of forty. At the foot of Xiaocang Mountain in Jiangning, Yuan Mei built a garden and sang for it. A wide range of poetry disciples, especially female disciples. Yuan Mei was one of the representative poets in Ganjia period. He, Zhao Yi and Jiang Shiquan are also called "the three great poets in Gan Long".
His works include "Kokura Yamaya Works Collection"; And Garden Poems (16) and Addendum (10); 24 volumes of New Qi Xie, followed by Qi Xie 10; Suiyuan menu 1 volume; There are more than 30 kinds of essays, letters, and menus accompanying the garden. The masterpiece of prose "Salute to Sister" is sincere and has a long history. Classical Chinese critics compare it with Han Yu's Ode to Twelve Lang in Tang Dynasty.
Advocate "the theory of spiritual nature". He advocates that a person should write his own personality when writing poems, and thinks that "from 300 poems to today, the people who preach poems are spiritual, regardless of piling up". Advocate to express one's mind directly and write one's own "temperament experience". It advocates the combination of "spirit" and "knowledge", takes temperament, intelligence and education as the creative basis, and takes "truth, novelty and liveliness" as the creative pursuit, thus combining innate conditions with acquired efforts to create good products, and holds that "poetry is written with a pen, such as beauty's hair, skin and smile, which are innate; Poetry and fu are used, such as beauty's clothes and jewelry, the day after tomorrow. " It advocates that literature should evolve and have the characteristics of the times, and opposes Tang Zong and Song. He ridiculed the verve school as "poor and arrogant", the style school as "puppet show", the texture school as "bone shop" and the Zongsong school as "begging for people to move". He also opposed Shen Deqian's theory of "gentleness and gentleness" and thought that "Confucius' theory of poetry is credible and" interesting and resentful "; If you don't keep your word, you will be' gentle and honest'. "It is advocated that parallel prose and prose should be paid equal attention to, and parallel prose and prose, like the parity in nature, should not be neglected. The relationship between the same source and different current, the coexistence of two peaks and the diversion of two waters. Poetry is fresh and meaningful, flowing freely. Landscape poetry is elegant and exquisite. Among these poets, Zheng Xie, Zhao Yi and Huang Jingren have similar thoughts and styles.
Yuan Mei's literary thought has the viewpoint of development, which has impacted the feudal orthodox literary view and formalism. In addition, he emphasized the existence value of parallel prose as American literature, which has certain positive significance. However, most of his poems are about trivial matters around him, full of romantic ballads and lacking social content, and some of them are often flashy or even superficial.